Insanity

19. Are We A Charity To You?!

"We're home," Ben and I announce our arrival, rather shout at the top of our lungs as we enter into our sweet home.

"In the living room," our mom calls out to us. We enter the room where she is folding the laundry while she is watching the reruns of F.R.I.E.N.D.S on TV.

"Mommy," I throw myself onto her into a bear hug where she happily hugs me back. My brother make some snorting noises when I kiss her on the cheek and settle back on the couch.

"How was your day, children?"

"It was good."

"It was amazing."

After going to the kitchen and getting myself a cookie, I tell her about my day, especially the part where a pop quiz was supposed to be got cancelled, to which the students celebrated like the New Years Eve. Ben tells her how he almost had a fight with his teacher for falsely accusing him for cheating at which my brother didn't. My mom scolds him not to react too much where he might fall into risk with the teacher but also encouraged him for standing up for himself.

Then she turns to me, "You didn't tell me what happened after the prank."

I smile to myself. "After the hug, we returned back and Kevin avoided us. He didn't return our calls or reply to any of mine, Dawn and Mason's texts. When we asked Zach, he said that he was upset and angry with us for pulling an incredibly stupid prank —"

"I don't blame him," my mom interrupts him.

I pull a face, "— and when Mason turned up at his house demanding for answers, Kevin punched him in return as he is the reason in the first place," laughing, I finish my story.

"You kids are insane," my mother sighs and Ben snickers.

"It's fun, mom. You did these kind of things as well, you told yourself that."

"Yes, we did, but we were never wild like the generation these days."

I roll my eyes internally at how she blames our generation but I let it go.

Ben narrates about some fight his friend got into and something how he and his friends will go to the movies but my entire focus is on the television where Monica almost has a heart attack when one of the plates from her expensive culinary accidentally falls on to the ground while Rachel and her sister are having a cat fight.

I laugh out loud at her heartbroken expression and my eyes fall to the picture right beside the TV where a younger version of my mom and dad are sitting on the iconic orange couch and showing their biggest smiles in the Warner Bros Studios.

My parents' love story is something I would listen to everyday. They met at a college party which was actually a little bit boring. My mom was ready to leave that place but stopped immediately when she heard the theme song of F.R.I.E.N.D.S playing through the speakers. She danced and clapped and screamed and sang along. The only people that were serenading crazily to 'I'll Be There For You' on stage were my mom and dad. After the song, they talked and instantly clicked and now twenty years later, here we are.

Their love for F.R.I.E.N.D.S is so immense that they decided to name me and my brother after the names of Ross' children.

Now that is what I call insane!

"Since that poor boy had saved you girls from two horrible hours, I want you to take my Brownies to him."

"WHAT?!" Ben and I shout in unison.

"Ask me to give him something else, mom, but not your insanely good Brownies." I disagree with her.

"Don't be silly, Emma. Mason even got his face punched by Kevin. He did this this for you and you should be thankful for that."